Pharmacist and Data Driven Quality Improvement in Primary Care

The 'intervention' is a health board quality improvement programme to be implemented across all practices in one Scottish NHS health board and comprises the following components: (i) Case finding via the P-DQIP informatics tool to identify patients with drug therapy risks for review; (ii) Decision support via the P-DQIP informatics tool to facilitate medication reviews; (iii) Practice pharmacists will be trained on the use of the P-DQIP informatics tool and instructed to target patients at risk of bleeding and hypoglycaemia first (iv) Ongoing performance feedback. Practices and locality pharmacists will be able to access reports on review activity and targeted prescribing; (v) promotion of the P-DQIP tool and intervention among GP practices. The P-DQIP intervention will be evaluated in all NHS Tayside practices who agree to share their data for monitoring and evaluation purposes.